Getting to know you.

[Covemastah]

Definitely need to teach you people how to shrink your pictures. Almost need 3 monitors for that one, cove.

On the other hand, is that where you guys vacation? Can we meet you up there sometime, that's friggin beautiful.

Thanks , you would be welcome anytime... It took me 3 yrs to learn how to put a pict on here,my daughter wasn't home to show me !! lol yup I gut a big lake and a big camera Merry Christmas to all the B.C even you UPSKID!!!!!

 

[Hawk780]

Name: Hawk780
Location: In the sky
Hobbies: Swooping down on field mice, mainly...and lurking in B.C.
Delivers: Air only
Heroes: Woody Woodpecker, the eagle on the back of the quarter, and the eagle on all those Harley vests...and Herky.

 

[sortaisle]

Name: Kevin, Boysan, Sortaisle
Sex: M
Age: 33
Status: Married 6 years. I have a 2 and 3 year old both girls
Started: Feb 97 unloading, sorting, irregs, secondary sort, safety co-chair, preload, saturday driver, package car driver, 22.3 combo, and now car shifter.
Hobbies: video games, kid stuff with my girls, hangin with my wife and BC'ing whenever I have spare time.

 

[DownsizedUPS'er]

Name: Renee or Nay
Start Date:3/2/1987 - 3/30/2004 (not by choice, position downsized/outsourded) 8-(
Sex: From: friend
UPS Position:started in the cstc, worked various depts all in the SFL dist office, did worked a short time at the Hollywood Cust. Count. and my last position was in the PCA Dept. I miss UPS and my UPS family.

Hobbies: going to the dog park with my puggle (pug/beagle mix) word puzzles, working with children, and playing with my nieces and nephews.

Married with no children but 1 very spoiled rotten dog.

Born in Chapel Hill NC, but family moved to S. Florida when i was 5 weeks old. lived in S. Florida until 1.5 years ago when i moved to North Central Florida.

 

[stevetheupsguy]

I got my Cat Scratch Fever eight-track
My best friend's in a gun rack
I'm a lowlife
I owe everybody money
I think racist jokes are funny
I'm a lowlife
I got a dirty mind, a gutter mouth
I'm makin' time, I'm goin' out
With your wife

Cuz I'm a lowlife
I'm a lowlife

I got kids I never seen
And their momma's seventeen
I'm a lowlife
I take strippers out to breakfast
You can add that to my checklist
I'm a lowlife
Ahh the landlord called the rent is due
I spent it all on a Kiss tattoo
I Rock n Roll all night

Cuz I'm a lowlife
I'm a lowlife
I'm a lowlife
Livin' the highlife

I'm watchin' porno on the TV
Wonderin' why she'd ever leave me
I'm a lowlife
The object of my affection
Asked the police for protection
I'm a lowlife
The romance is gone, I'm doin' fine
Me and your mom had a real good time
Just last night

Cuz I'm a lowlife
I'm a lowlife

I make black music for the white man
Keep cocaine upon my nightstand
I'm a lowlife
Ain't never hung out in the Catskills
But I've been to jail in Nashville
I'm a lowlife
Livin' the highlife......

You guys really want to get to know me now........lol

All are welcome, run into the light.

 

[thebrownbox]

Name: Mike
Start Date: Nov 20 2007
Sex: M Age:24
Married: nope
UPS position: Preloader
Hobbies: Working on cars, photography and electronics work

been told many of times "I think you can do better"

 

[stevetheupsguy]

At least they're not talking about your wife when they say that.
I'd just whip around and say, I think I can do better, too, as you look your supe in the eyes.

 

[thebrownbox]

lol

 

[BigBrownSanta]

Name: Mike
Start Date: Nov 20 2007
Sex: M Age:24
Married: nope
UPS position: Preloader
Hobbies: Working on cars, photography and electronics work

been told many of times "I think you can do better"

You shoulda looked him straight in the eye and said, "Looks like we have something in common after all".

 

[Paid-over-in-Maine]

Name: Ed, Edsel, Fast Eddie
Sex:M
Married: 18 Yrs, 2 Boys 16 & 13
Start Dateost Srike-97
Drive Date 5/2000
Hobbies:Camping,fishing,hiking,Golf-although its been a while.
Recently got hooked on BC

 

[Paid-over-in-Maine]

Originally from NYC currently reside in PSL, FL

I have some relatives there also.

 

[Re-Raise]

Name Eric
Age: 44
Location: Another Illinois
Married: 21 years She's still hot and for some reason stays with me
Kids: 2 daughters ages 16 and 13
Sex: Anytime and everytime we can get those kids out of the house
Ups: part-time 86 went full-time in 92
My bid route covers the rural area I grew up in and still live
Hobbies: Poker .. Where the Re-Raise comes from..Golf, Boating, all sports

 

[deepsouthmamaw]

Name: Mamaw Toni, Moma Toni, Tee Toni
Start Date: sep 16 81
Sex: friend Age: 50 something
Originally from NI La Born at Iberia Medical Ctr Deliver to Imc Live 1 mile from Imc and ups ctr deliver to area I was raised in
widow: 6 children, 2 girls 4 boys 6 grand children 1 boy and 5 girls 1 great grand child on the way
UPS position: Driver since 83 unloader sorter loader then driver
Hobbies: riding my harley, gardening' scrapbooking, traveling expecially to other countries, building puzzles, photography, new hobbie to start jan 7 learning how to snow ski and snow mobile
BC member since 2007, though never posted

My Family is my life

 

[pickup]

allright here i go although i'll still be vague in some areas. Name is pickup. I am in feeders for about 5 years and sigh... i know this will piss some of you off but i was an off the street hire although if it is any consolation when i was living in new york city (queens and brooklyn) I did many many deliveries in nyc delivering soda pop in a straight truck and small combination tractor trlr unit. That sort of stuff can kill your knees as you make an in thebasement delivery with the hand truck and your shoulders take a beating as well. When 9/11 hit, I was supposed to make three deliveries to the wtc that day,a sbaros, some other i cant remember, and windows on the world on top of one of the building. As luck would have it, as i drove past a lower midtown delivery , i saw that they were open (not for business yet ) for delivery (which not always the case). After i spent twenty minutes there, headed toward wtc and saw the results of the first plane hit and turned my ass around and headed back to queens. Job was affected afterwards, got laid off and moved to jersey because didn't know if nyc would bounce back . i'll continue in next posting

 

[pickup]

Lemme also just say even if got to the wtc on my normal time. I would most likely would have been waiting on the line that snakes into the wtc as security was already tight there due to the 93 bombing attempt so no i didn't cheat death and the only post traumatic stress i get from remembering the idle months afterward as i went to crap on layoff watching the smoking remains of the wtc from the stoop of the house i lived in. anyway moved to nj , got a job tractor trailering over the road and then local. At an everyday stop became friendly with a ups driver and one day i told him my company was going belly up. Told me about the casual/temp situation at his ups terminal. Gave it a shot. Learned doubles, did whatever they told me, took my lumps . and got called back 5 months later. 6 package delivery drivers to 1 outside hire deal.

 

[pickup]

anyway in closing, i try to love it here , compared to what i used to do, esp over the road driving. Have my run ins with management but i realized that they were kids too once with dreams and are now working in numbers oriented environment that they are more of prisioners of then we will ever be. Got and still get ( and I give ) help from my fellow upsers (who are a breed apart , a breed i strive to become more like everyday). So with that said, my only postings on this forum will be of a positive note(trust me I can be a sarcastic sob but not here) We got enough negativity in our working lives (traffic , four wheelers without a clue just looking for an accident) . I'll only post about what I know and if I post about a subject that in retrospect looks like i don't know what i am talking about i am sure i will be corrected (i.e my suggestion for powering a cell phone in a package car, my only saving grace is that my posting and responses to it prompted someone else to come out of the woodworks to post a good solution, SO THERE! ) Anyway, work and live somewhere in new jersey am single and never married (after watching the example set by my parents, and realizing that i wasn't going to produce the next einstein, decided against it. Although there was this one girl in high school, sigh..... My hobbies have really condensed over the years to just being happy finding a place to take a # 2., getting to and from the barn in one piece and making sure that i have enough time to put somewhat nutritious food in the cupboard as there is no mrs. pickup to do the grocery shopping while i am out and about at work. Maybe more than you wanted to know, but that is how I became a member of the ups brunch. I am sure that my off the street status will irk some and i understand that completely as i remember being passed up in soda pop for pure tractor trailer bulk shipments by less qualified , less senior members and it bothered me. I apologize for that feeling if exists amongst some of you. I could have omitted this fact but I felt this thread (thanks steve ) gave me the invitation to let it all hang out there.

 

[pickup]

and christ , now i am shaking thinking about those days after 9/11 with no work , just staring at that smoke( went on for two months at least) thinking about what happened to those people (and i knew and bumped into quite a few of them and a lot of them were not saints- some were ) but when i think of the firefighters, especially the ones that run into a building after its twin already fell, that is heroicism at its finest, a standard that I don't know I could meet if the circumstances were to one day find me.) I think that day made the cynic in me realize that people do have nobility in them and that is what i try to look for in people now and i try to ignore ( up to a point of course) the failings that they have .After all i am not perfect , lord knows that better than me but he has yet to condemn me so why should I condemn others? oh well, i rambled on too much and i guess i don't have to post this but i don't want to delete the salute to the firefighters so here it goes. I'm gonna throw it up against the wall

 

[pickup]

oh and i am in my early 40s so take what i say with a grain of salt, i am still trying to figure life out. When I am 70, then i will be a know it all and i can bitch about how these virtual reality sets being hardwired into kid's brains is what is ruining society as well as cloning spare parts in case one's body starts falling apart is also bad as it encourages excess drinking because a new liver can always be had.

 

[dilligaf]

TG, the page finally changed. Now I can read without scrolling back and forth. LOL

 

[LiL"Comet"]

Name: LiL"Comet"
Sex: Fe-lion hubby says twice a day still not enough to keep the doc away!!
Age: 30 I meant 29 again

Married: almost a decade (get-tin better like wine finer with time)
Start date: 1999
Location: Down South (country girl)
Position: Running Back
started as oms now known as pcs went driving last yr during peak 1300 pkg car drove thru peak now (loved driving & meeting cust) always caught hell from male drvrs about getting help & now on local sort friend/t soup!!
Kids: 3, boy 5, boy 6, girl 8 finally figured out what caused it lol
loves of my life they teach me something new everyday.
Hobbies: spending time with my hubby when we can, special time with kids. fishing,

BC time, listening to good music, any outdoor sports, football

drinking bud-light lime with lime

oh and playing corn hole
Animals: great Dane "Bodie", Yorkie "Ponto" and I think a new cat that's been hanging around haven't named her yet.

LOVE my job enjoy everyday, happy to have it, like to make everyday a good day for all (always say please and thank-you when asking someone to do something) Respect is a very high on my list I want respect and earn it not just expect to get it. Life is what you make of it, it's amazing how much better your days can be with a good attitude towards it.